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Exploring the viral landscape of saffron through metatranscriptomic analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Virus Research, May 2024
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Title
Exploring the viral landscape of saffron through metatranscriptomic analysis
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Virus Research, May 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.virusres.2024.199389
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Cristian Martínez-Fajardo, Pablo Navarro-Simarro, Lucía Morote, Ángela Rubio-Moraga, María Mondéjar-López, Enrique Niza, Javier Argandoña, Oussama Ahrazem, Lourdes Gómez-Gómez, Alberto José López-Jiménez

Abstract

Saffron (Crocus sativus L.), a historically significant crop valued for its nutraceutical properties, has been poorly explored from a phytosanitary perspective. This study conducted a thorough examination of viruses affecting saffron samples from Spanish cultivars, using high-throughput sequencing alongside a systematic survey of transcriptomic datasets from Crocus sativus at the Sequence Read Archive. Our analysis unveiled a broad diversity and abundance, identifying 17 viruses across the 52 analyzed libraries, some of which were highly prevalent. This includes known saffron-infecting viruses and previously unreported ones. In addition, we discovered 7 novel viruses from the Alphaflexiviridae, Betaflexiviridae, Potyviridae, Solemoviridae, and Geminiviridae families, with some present in libraries from various locations. These findings indicate that the saffron-associated virome is more complex than previously reported, emphasizing the potential of phytosanitary analysis to enhance saffron productivity.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 May 2024.
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#4,987,446
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Outputs from Virus Research
#455
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Outputs of similar age
#44,542
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Outputs of similar age from Virus Research
#3
of 25 outputs
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